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say it: FRANG-kuhn-stahyn
frankenstein is a noun meaning "an agency that escapes control and destroys its creator". It is pronounced /ˈfɹæŋkənˌstaɪn/ — FRANG-kuhn-stahyn. It carries 3 recorded senses.
an agency that escapes control and destroys its creator
the monster created by Frankenstein in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (the creator's name is commonly used to refer to his creation)
the fictional Swiss scientist who was the protagonist in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; he created a monster from parts of corpses
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for frankenstein come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.